Books giveaway: Dreamweavers #1 and #2

Te Rā Aroha Press are about to launch Isa Pearl Ritchie’s Into the Labyrinth, the second of her Wel­ling­ton-based YA Dream­weavers fantasy series (fol­low­ing on from Awa and the Dream­weavers, released last year). The series fea­tures Awa… …an inter­me­di­ate stu­dent nav­ig­at­ing changes to her fam­ily as a child of divorce, mov­ing to a new school, […]

Review: Woop Balance meal

Remem­ber when we reviewed My Food Bag a bunch of years ago? We got approached by anoth­er com­pany, and offered one meal. Unfor­tu­nately, they sent us shrimp. Have I men­tioned lately in every single food review that I’m aller­gic to shell­fish? Luck­ily I found a taker to make the din­ner instead. Thanks Megan, take it […]

Pig & Pinot – we’re as happy as pigs in mud

As you’re no doubt aware from watch­ing Short­land Street, it’s duck-hunt­ing sea­son. Usu­ally this means that Cloudy Bay would be doing duck & pinot noir pair­ings around the coun­try, but this year they’ve decided to do some­thing a little dif­fer­ent and pos­sibly a little more access­ible – pinot noir & pros­ciutto – “bring­ing you the […]